Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.

No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.

Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.